[SyncEvolution] Sync to a flat file?

[Patrick Ohly]

On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 10:32 -0500, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
> Somebody claiming to be Patrick Ohly wrote:
> >On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 10:18 -0500, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
> >> >Not directly. The closest options are:
> >> >      * file backend (internal to SyncEvolution, no other dependencies)
> >> >        with one item (contact or event) per file in a directory
> >>
> >> This sounds like a good start, at least.  How do I set that up?
> >
> >Here's a HOWTO using that backend:
> >
> >https://syncevolution.org/wiki/http-server-howto
> 
> That page seems to be about using syncevo as an HTTP server (not sure what 
> that would even do...).  I want to use it as a client (for a CalDAV server) 
> with the "file" backend.

For that you need to adapt the part about configuring the local side of
the CalDAV such that the local side uses the file. That part is
identical to setting up the datastores (called sources in those HOWTOs)
in the server case.

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